China has moved space mining from science fiction to near-term planning, tying robotic asteroid missions, lunar resource surveys, and nuclear-powered bases into a single industrial strategy. Instead ...

And robots shall tread upon the moon – or at least on a simulated lunar surface at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A team of 22 University of Virginia students is competing against students ...

China has successfully developed a moon robot with both limbs and wheels—presumably to be used to extract resources from the lunar surface. China continues innovating interesting technologies that ...

A team of 22 University of Virginia students won the top prize at NASA’s 2026 Lunabotics Challenge after designing and ...

Starbase, a space launch facility located at the southern tip of Texas, U.S. The massive Starship rocket, carrying Interlune’s lunar regolith excavation equipment ‘Harvester,’ roars into the sky. The ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) are using digital twin technology ...

Planetary surface missions currently operate cautiously. On Mars, communication delays between Earth and rovers (typically between four and 22 minutes), as well as data transfer constraints due to ...

The EU's Commissioner for Space and Defense, warns of the bloc losing influence in space as it expresses ambition to mine the moon and asteroids for resources. Faltering energy security and unstable ...

NASA is working hard to send astronauts back to the moon as part of its Artemis missions, and for good reasons. But to make the most of its plans to explore and perhaps even colonize the moon, NASA ...